THE OPENING POST.. THE GOL GAPPA!

I wrote and then I deleted the whole line exactly 9 times before arriving on a perfectly apt opening post. A flamboyant title was what I proposed, unfortunately Shri Chandra deposed rather indifferently. He wanted some thing much more earthy; much more, well, closer to earth. We mulled some really fatuous and amusing choices- I went to the extent of suggesting ‘raison d’être’- discussions took place in sessions of 2 hours each over two days. It seemed as if our decision or rather indecision would have far-reaching consequences, potent enough to cause international turmoil or so we thought. So we couldn’t let the matter rest just like that. And then genius struck. Shri Chandra whipped out a magic wand and let loose one of his quips, that luckily I took seriously. It was a funny situation and both of us broke into girlish giggles, only this time there were two grown gentlemen at it. And thus, ‘GOL GAPPA’ a metaphor for our ideologies, was born! Yes, quite remarkably we had agreed on a common ideology! Let us explain ourselves please—Deepak Gauri is a precocious young man who dreams and dreams and has never bothered to act. Shri Jayant Chandra on the contrary is a very real person, rooted firmly to the ground. Shri Chandra as I call him here is a venerable senior and a guardian angel literally. While walking down the mile long road from college to hostel we hit upon the idea of this blog. Both our individual blogs weren’t exactly buzzing with activity. An unsolicited inertia had settled in and I in particular was finding it difficult to breathe. So that sudden stroke of thought sparked off this whole idea and are we glad or what! GOL GAPPA is actually the way we look at the world. An oddly shaped hollow shell at first, is broken from the top and different ingredients forced into it until they are indistinguishable. Those very disparate ingredients coalesce to create a world of their own, unlike any. Furthermore, a GOL GAPPA never tastes the same at two different places. The taste and the style of preparation are endemic and thus change from region to region, just like people, languages and cultures do. Therefore, there couldn’t be a better motif for a blog that has set out to do just that. There are millions of blogs on the internet and blogging in India is only just trickling down. Different people have different purposes for blogging, some do it for business, others just for the kicks of it and still others who dream like me! We as a team would like to veer away from what’s already said and done. Did I hear you say some thing? What! Everything’s already been said and done? Is that so? Think again!